Tea Party, Rand Paul needs lesson on Globalization and Trade

[OHdem10]

Laws. Last evening on Lou Dobbs, Rand was indignant
explaining "this is the craziest thing," The Guitar
Company in Tennessee is being accused of breaking
Indian Law. Apparently the very special wood comes
from India. There is a pesky little clause in the
Trade agreements that if their wood is used, the
India has the right to "finish the article>"

The Senator does not seem to understand that other
countries around the world, including the EU are
protective of the products and their workers. They
look out for the worker's interest. In other words
we sell you the wood but we must get some work for
our workers. The people in Tenn. can build the
item but Indian Workers get to have some jobs finishing
up the product. This is how it sounds anyway.

Our country Free Traders open the gates and permit
the Multinationals to go around the world looking
for cheap labor. No strings attached. This would
be protectionism. We make no requirements on Companies
to demand that our country get so many jobs ect. This
would be protectionism. Our Country puts no demands
that certain products must be completed here or some
part of the the mfg process be done here. This would
be protectionism. In other words our part in Free Trade
is designed to help Businesses establish themselves
in other countries so they can reap big profits.
Workers are of little concern in American Free Trade.

Globalization, Senator Paul, we are all joined at the
hip. No we cannot say --Stop World, we want to get off.

Heck, even though the Globalization and Trade Rules
required the Particpation of every Government in the
Network, who has the courage to say --Guye, we need
to meet and make some adjustments here. This is really
not working that well for any of us.

[pampango]

1. Paul's about to get one from an unlikely source. Tea baggers don't need a lesson.

US lawmaker (Ron) Paul to meet French far-right (National Front) leader (Marine Le Pen)

Republican Representative and presidential hopeful Ron Paul aims to meet with the head of France's far-right National Front party, Marine Le Pen, during her upcoming US visit, his office said Wednesday.

Marine Le Pen is seen as a fresh new face for the anti-immigrant party founded by her father and erstwhile presidential candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen. The National Front's opponents have branded the party racist.

In mid-September, she said would travel to the United States in early November and hoped to meet key officials tied to the archconservative "Tea Party" movement to discuss the global economic crisis.

"There will be Republicans, I hope there will be Democrats, because I want to meet with everyone," she said.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j_HdEchI2JOF3xSG00w3adi01xTg?docId=CNG.8893091bb42baeeb85dd89ded02beef0.c81

The National Front's new target is the oppressive power of global finance, and the mood she is tapping spreads across Europe. ... Le Pen is promising to pull France out of the euro, reinstate protectionist barriers, and reassert the state's supremacy over market forces.

According to a TNS-Sofres poll in September, 16 percent of the French have a favorable opinion of the National Front, with 76 percent taking a negative view. That's the party's best rating since 2007.

Nostalgia and identity are still core National Front concerns, but Le Pen has moved beyond immigration. The new Front rejects all the ideas that have driven European economic growth in the past two decades: globalization, free trade and the dominance of services and the financial industry.

"The real fault line is between nationalists and globalists, between economic patriots and those who believe that nations and borders must disappear and that there should be no obstacles whatsoever to commerce, that everything is for sale and everything can be bought, and that there should be no controls on the flows of capital, products and people," she says.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/07/us-europe-lep...

As for teabagger attitudes towards trade, it's the Democrats you have to worry about. Repubicans and tea baggers already split on whether "free trade" is a good thing, though their politicians are pretty much 100% for it.



Most Tea Partiers Think Free Trade Agreements That Tea Party Candidates Support Are Bad For The Country

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/30/tea-partiers-trade-bad

Interestingly, the poll also found that opposition to free trade agreements is particularly strong among Americans who define themselves as supporters of the Tea Party movement. 61 percent of self-described tea party supporters said they thought free trade has harmed the United States, just four percent less than union members...